Dear Bernie,
You fought the good fight. You moved Hillary Clinton’s discourse farther to the left – even though we have no guarantee that she will abide by any of it – and fueled incredible enthusiasm in millions of young people. Throughout your campaign, you have been true to the principles that have guided you throughout your decades in politics. You have never been in bed with Wall Street, never voted for war, never said something you didn’t believe just to secure votes. It’s why so many of us felt the bern and still feel it.
In the last few months, the one supposedly progressive TV cable news Rob and I watch, MSNBC, turned decidedly toward Clinton and basically ignored you and your campaign. This turn became so obvious and sometimes painful to watch that I doubt if I’ll bother watching Rachel Maddow again. It was as if all the commentators on MSNBC got the word from the higher ups that Clinton was to be touted.
At one town hall, I think it was, Maddow gave Clinton an hour; you got 30 minutes. I think that’s when I realized the tide really had turned in the election, that the candidate would be determined by the media. I often felt and still feel that Maddow hopes to become the press secretary in the Clinton administration.
I doubt if there is a genuine bone in Clinton’s body. She is the establishment, through and through. Expedient. She has considerable baggage. She is the one who will say anything to get elected. I never feel that about you. You fight for what you believe and you haven’t changed your tune on the basics of progressive politics in all your years in politics.
Even when the AP called Clinton the presumptive nominee on June 6, the day before California and five states were left to vote in their primaries, it felt like a ploy. It felt as if the call was intended to give Clinton a chance to do her victory speech this evening. I’m it, folks. The first female nominee of a major party.
Now Clinton is going for your supporters. I wish her luck. The pundits have said that it’s up to you, Bernie, to sway them. I disagree. It‘s her task to woo us. It’s her task to prove that she’s worthy of our support. And, I’m sorry, but falling back on the card called, We must defeat Trump isn’t enough. I would love to see a woman as president. But not Clinton.
Your platform represents the future. Clinton’s campaign represents business and politics as usual. Trump represents Fascism. If she wins, Bernie, I don’t think her moment in the sun will last longer than four years. But in the larger scheme of things, however this election shakes out, you have made a vital difference in how the Democratic party moves forward.
Will they become truly progressive? Or will the Democratic party still be one that’s rigged with super delegates, in bed with Wall Street, and won’t allow independents, who represent 40 percent of the electorate, to vote in primaries? Will the Democrats, who supposedly represent the people, still be a party that favors the one percent? Who aren’t that different from the Republicans?
In 2008, I changed my party affiliation from independent to Democrat so that I could vote in the primary for Obama. He moved me. Unfortunately, he was up against an intractable congress, did what he could, but didn’t quite make it on many fronts. Before this election, I plan to become an independent again. If, in 2020, Elizabeth Warren or some true other true progressive runs on the Democratic ticket, then I’ll switch again. But for now… back to the independent status.
Onward, Bernie! When you return to the Senate, it will be with greater power, a greater voice, and greater clout for pushing forth a truly progressive agenda. We who feel the bern have your back.
Same here, A Clinton/Warren ticket would have my vote.
I see on all the news channels this morning (Friday, 6-10-2016) that Clinton and Warren are having a get-t0gether later today. That sounds hopeful. From the mathematical frequency standpoint, 2016 is a frequency-9 year, which indicates “the death, or ending, of many things; doors being closed; people passing in one way or another, not necessarily via death, etc.”. 2017 is a frequency-1 year. It opens the doors wide for NEW BEGINNINGS; fresh ideas, the births of DIFFERENT PATHS. I think this could mean that for the first time in history, America may have not one but TWO females in the two highest positions of leadership in our country. Have to say, this is an interesting and compelling changing of the guard. As much as I frown on Hillary,
my sense of shifting power to the Feminine from the Masculine, the masculine that has been in power since George Washington, would bring an entirely fresh set of aspects. The old but sage adage, “men are from Mars; women are from Venus” may be exactly what we need to usher the USA into an upper spiral out of the negative mess that’s been made. We’ll have to wait and see how the dice roll. Trump would be more of the same, multiplied times ten-thousand, of the male energy that has dominated, and I personally don’t believe a 1-frequency year would see him in the powerful position he craves. Frequency-1 brings positive change, and Trump simply would compound the negative current situation. As an aside, the current frequencies begin to shift a bit prior to the birth of the incoming frequencies, just as a retro planet’s influences begin prior to the planet turning retro. So, by November, we will already be entering the 2017 frequency and sloughing off the old one.
If she takes warren, then she has my vote.
I gather from a poll of polls that Clinton is favourite, which I suppose – looking as an outsider – is a relief.
A relief…debatable. Clinton and Trump have the highest negative ratings.
Thank you……..well put indeed.
“Your platform represents the future. Clinton’s campaign represents business and politics as usual. Trump represents Fascism.”
Bernie Sanders spoke for the future and the people, and at least he planted that seed, if the American people aren’t so blind and ignorant that nothing can really grow in the soil any more. Sometimes I feel very disillusioned and saddened – the corporate control and corruption and fascism that the other candidates represent in the end means so much suffering for people and children in the future, such blindness to a planet in crisis. We so desperately need visionary leaders as Bernie Sanders is, as we need real democracy instead of being serfs to a new corporate oligarchy – but the American people need to be able to take advantage of their democracy, to become educated about what it means.
Obama had accomplished a lot, although I am very fearful of the way both he and Clinton represent the TPP, which would so much more greatly enhance the powers of the Corporatocracy that I’m not sure there would ever be any coming back. And I do not think the new monarchy, represented by such powers as Monsanto (Clinton has big ties there)………has shown itself to be an enlightened monarchy.
All true!
I have been a Bernie supporter and believe he’s done a great job, but I am truly hoping that the Democrats (I’m one) will come together and support our nominee, even if it’s Hillary. We must defeat He Who Will Not Be Named. It’s just too important.
Thank you for this, Trish! I feel as you do. It is Hillary’s job to seek our support. Not Bernie’s to deliver us to her….. Until you remember that Hillary speaks in code. And she very likely means that it is time for Bernie to deliver his donor list to her.
A move I am adamantly against. That is the most valuable tool in the progressive world. And must be used solely in the support of progressive candidates.
Here’s what the corporate hierarchy put out yesterday as a counter to Bernie’s charges that greed is running and ruining the country. It’s Milton Friedman whose free market, non-regulation ideas fomented the crash in ’08. Here he tells Bernie that greed is fine, it’s just the way things are. He died in ’06 and watched the crash from the other side, aka, hell.
https://youtu.be/s7Cs5GNRhDc